Hello out there. Remember me?
If your memory stretches back far enough, you'll recall that in my last post, I announced my intention not to focus my attention on this blog over the summer.
"I still expect to post at random intervals," I wrote. "To be honest, you probably won't even notice a difference from my usual sporadic posting." Well, as it turned out, I haven't posted a thing in the last eight weeks. And many of you did notice and mention it to me, which I appreciate.
While I was away, I traveled to what felt like everywhere, even if it was really only a few U.S states. I had a whole lot of wonderful quality time with relatives from many branches of my big old family forest. I got to play for hours with my amazing little nephew and help put together his second birthday party.
I had adventures. I rode the Coast Starlight train down the California coast. I saw the northern lights from an airplane. I watched a lightning storm from a Manhattan high-rise. I learned to rewire a light switch, comprehend the Tour de France, and play the ukelele. I suffered through what seemed like more than my fair share of airline ticketing mishaps (though I didn't get stranded in an airport overnight again, happily).
While out of town, I didn't do any work on my novel, and I only managed a little writing in the gaps between the different trips. I definitely didn't spend any of my travel downtime on blog renovations and planning, the way I tried to convince myself I might. I did read a bunch of books, which I'll post about soon.
In short, I had a lovely summer vacation, and now it's lovely to be home. And I'm looking forward to getting back to blogging as a nice balance to the novel writing sessions I'm even more eager to resume.
Good Stuff Out There:
→ Sunny Chanel asked her six-year-old to guess what classic novels are about based on the covers: "It looks like a book for kids. I think it's about a donkey and a pig that do not like each other and they both live on a farm for animals. The same farm. It looks like it would be a funny book with a good really nice ending."
→ Gabe Habash at PWxyz does a roundup of Ugly Covers for Great Books: "I'm not sure Faulkner’s had a good cover printed since he was alive."
4 comments:
I had adventures. I rode the Coast Starlight train down the California coast. I saw the northern lights from an airplane. I watched a lightning storm from a Manhattan high-rise. I learned to rewire a light switch, comprehend the Tour de France, and play the ukelele"
That sounds well worth the break! Very much so!
Glad to have you back, but it's much better having you do all that than updating, so...I hope you're off to other cool places, soon. (And still sorry you spent a night in D/FW Airport...)
Welcome home! Sounds like it's been a wonderful adventure all around!
Christopher: Thanks! I actually have another non-family-visit trip coming up soon, and that will be nice, but to be honest, I mostly prefer staying put!
mamagotcha: Thank you! It was, but it's lovely to be home.
Glad to see you are back, and full of lovely adventures! Sounds like a very pleasant summer holiday. Looking forward to catching up in person. :)))
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